WWE has cut 18 wrestlers from its talent slate, reportedly due to budget cuts.
Sports Illustrated reported that terminated wrestlers came from both the main WWE roster and the company”™s NXT developmental brand. Included in the cuts were former NXT champions Keith Lee and Karrion Kross and former Raw women”™s champion Nia Jax.
Talent were told they were being let go as part of a budget cutting regimen, although the news of their unemployment came on the same day when the Stamford company reported $255.8 million in revenue for its third quarter, a 15% year-over-year increase.
This is the fifth wave of WWE and NXT wrestlers being terminated from the company”™s roster, following cuts in April, May. June and August.
